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Sorbonne

The name Sorbonne is commonly used to refer to the historic University of Paris in Paris, France, or one of its successor institutions. It is also the name of a building in the Latin Quarter of Paris which from 1253 onwards housed the College of Sorbonne, part of one of the first universities in the Western world, later renamed University of Paris and commonly known as "the Sorbonne".
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  • Email: info@bis-sorbonne.fr
  • Type: Library
  • Description: historical university and building in Paris, France
  • Also known as: “Bibliothèque interuniversitaire de la Sorbonne”, “La Sorbonne”, and “Sorbona”
  • Address: 17 Rue de la Sorbonne, Paris, 75005

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Collège de France and Panthéon.

University
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The , founded in 1530 by François I, is a higher education and research establishment in . It is located in near La Sorbonne. is situated 110 metres southeast of Sorbonne.

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The is a monument in the , France. It stands in the , on the , in the centre of the , which was named after it. is situated 370 metres southeast of Sorbonne.

Church
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, often referred to simply as Notre-Dame, is a medieval Catholic cathedral on the , in the , France. is situated 600 metres northeast of Sorbonne.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Latin Quarter and 5th arrondissement.

Suburb
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The of Paris is a district in on the of the , around the Sorbonne. Located in the city's and the arrondissements, it is known for its concentration of universities.

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The of Paris is one of the best known of the city's central districts, located on the Left Bank of the river Seine. Also commonly known as the "Latin Quarter" because the first great Parisian university, the Sorbonne, was founded here and Latin was the language the medieval period students used once to speak.

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The in travellers' terms generally refers to the "Left Bank" of the River Seine in the capital city of . The defies precise definition but generally refers to those arrondissements on the southern bank of the river as it flows…

Sorbonne

Latitude
48.84921° or 48° 50′ 57″ north
Longitude
2.34395° or 2° 20′ 38″ east
Elevation
61 metres (200 feet)
Operator
Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Open location code
8FW4R8XV+MH
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4757783979
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­library
Geo­Names ID
6457252
Wiki­data ID
Q214654
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Sorbonne” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “La Sorbonne”
  • Afrikaans: “Sorbonne”
  • Albanian: “Sorbona”
  • Albanian: “Sorbonne”
  • Arabic: “السربون”
  • Arabic: “السوربونا”
  • Arabic: “سوربورن”
  • Arabic: “سوربون”
  • Arabic: “سوربونا”
  • Armenian: “Սորբոն”
  • Asturian: “Sorbona”
  • Azerbaijani: “Sarbonna”
  • Bashkir: “Сорбонна”
  • Basque: “Sorbona”
  • Belarusian: “Парыжскі ўніверсітэт”
  • Belarusian: “Сарбона”
  • Belarusian: “Сарбонскі універсітэт”
  • Belarusian: “Сарбонскі ўніверсітэт”
  • Bengali: “সর্বন”
  • Breton: “Sorbonne”
  • Bulgarian: “Сорбона”
  • Bulgarian: “Сорбоната”
  • Catalan: “La Sorbona”
  • Catalan: “La Sorbonne”
  • Catalan: “Sorbona”
  • Catalan: “Sorbonne”
  • Catalan: “Universitat de la Sorbona de París”
  • Catalan: “Universitat de la Sorbona”
  • Catalan: “Universitat de la Sorbonne”
  • Central Kurdish: “سوربن”
  • Chinese: “索邦大学”
  • Chinese: “索邦大學”
  • Chinese: “索邦樓”
  • Chinese: “索邦神学院”
  • Chinese: “索邦神學院”
  • Chuvash: “Сорбонна”
  • Corsican: “A Sorbona”
  • Corsican: “Sorbona”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Sorbonna”
  • Croatian: “Sorbona”
  • Croatian: “Sorbonna”
  • Croatian: “Sorbonne”
  • Czech: “Sorbona”
  • Czech: “Sorbonna”
  • Danish: “Sorbonne”
  • Danish: “Sorbonnen”
  • Dutch: “Sorbonne”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “السوربون”
  • Esperanto: “La Sorbonne”
  • Esperanto: “La Sorbono”
  • Esperanto: “Sorbonne”
  • Esperanto: “Sorbono”
  • Esperanto: “Universitato de Parizo”
  • Esperanto: “Universitato Sorbono”
  • Finnish: “Sorbonne”
  • French: “chancellerie des universités de Paris”
  • French: “La Sorbonne”
  • French: “Sorbonne de Paris”
  • French: “Sorbonne”
  • French: “Université de Paris”
  • French: “Universités de Paris”
  • Galician: “Sorbona”
  • Galician: “Universidade da Sorbona de París”
  • Galician: “Universidade da Sorbona”
  • Georgian: “სორბონა”
  • German: “College de Sorbonne”
  • German: “Collège de Sorbonne”
  • German: “Sorbonne”
  • Greek: “Πανεπιστήμιο Σορβόνης”
  • Greek: “Πανεπιστήμιο της Σορβόνης”
  • Greek: “Σορβόνη”
  • Greek: “Σορβόννη”
  • Hebrew: “סורבון”
  • Hungarian: “Sorbonne”
  • Ido: “Sorbonne”
  • Indonesian: “Sorbonne”
  • Interlingua: “Sorbonne”
  • Irish: “Sorbonne”
  • Italian: “La Sorbona”
  • Italian: “Sorbona”
  • Italian: “Sorbonne”
  • Italian: “Università della Sorbona”
  • Japanese: “ソルボンヌ”
  • Japanese: “パリ大学”
  • Korean: “소르본”
  • Latin: “Sorbona”
  • Lithuanian: “Sorbona”
  • Lithuanian: “Sorbonne”
  • Luxembourgish: “Sorbonne”
  • Malay: “Rhopalophora occipitalis”
  • Malay: “Sorbonne”
  • Malayalam: “സോർബോൺ”
  • Maltese: “Sorbonne”
  • Manx: “Sorbonne”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sorbonne-universitetet”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sorbonne”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sorbonneuniversitetet”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Université Paris”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Universitet i Paris”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Universitet i Sorbonne”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Universitetet i Paris Sorbonne”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Universitetet i Paris”
  • Norwegian: “Sorbonne”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “La Sorbona”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “La Sorbòna”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Sorbona”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Sorbòna”
  • Ossetian: “Сорбоннæ”
  • Persian: “دانشگاه پاریس”
  • Persian: “دانشگاه سوربن”
  • Persian: “دانشگاه سوربون”
  • Persian: “سوربن”
  • Persian: “سوربون”
  • Piemontese: “La Sorbon-a”
  • Polish: “Sorbona”
  • Polish: “Université de Paris”
  • Polish: “Uniwersytet Paryski”
  • Portuguese: “Sorbonne”
  • Portuguese: “Universidade da Sorbonne”
  • Portuguese: “Universidade de sorbonne”
  • Romanian: “La Sorbonne”
  • Romanian: “Sorbona”
  • Romanian: “Sorbonne”
  • Romanian: “Universitatea Sorbona”
  • Russian: “Парижский Университет”
  • Russian: “Сорбона”
  • Russian: “Сорбонна”
  • Russian: “Университет Парижа”
  • Russian: “Университет Сорбонна в Париже”
  • Scots: “Sorbonne”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Oilthigh Paris (Sorbonne)”
  • Serbian: “Sorbona (zgrada)”
  • Serbian: “Sorbona”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Sorbonne”
  • Slovak: “Parížska univerzita”
  • Slovak: “Sorbonna”
  • Slovak: “Sorbonne”
  • Slovenian: “Sorbona”
  • Slovenian: “Sorbonne”
  • Spanish: “La Sorbona”
  • Spanish: “La Sorbonne”
  • Spanish: “Sorbon”
  • Spanish: “Sorbón”
  • Spanish: “Sorbona”
  • Spanish: “Sorbonne”
  • Swedish: “Sorbonne”
  • Swedish: “Sorbonneuniversitetet”
  • Swiss German: “Sorbonne”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Sorbonne”
  • Turkish: “Collège de Sorbonne”
  • Ukrainian: “Паризький університет”
  • Ukrainian: “Сорбона”
  • Ukrainian: “Сорбонна”
  • Ukrainian: “Сорбонський університет”
  • Ukrainian: “Університет Сорбонна”
  • Urdu: “جامعہ سوربون”
  • Urdu: “سوربون”
  • Uzbek: “Sorbonne Universiteti”
  • Vietnamese: “Collège de Sorbonne”
  • Vietnamese: “Đại học Sorbonne”
  • Vietnamese: “Sorbonne”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Sorbonne”
  • Welsh: “Sorbonne”
  • Western Armenian: “Սորպոն”
  • Yue Chinese: “索邦樓”

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